Improvement in rubber coverings for whip-stocks



G. H. DOUGLAS. Y Rubber-Covering for Whip-Stocks.

N0,153,762 PatentedAug.r4,l87'4.

THE GRAPHIC CILPNDTO LWLJBL l PARK PIACE, N Y.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE H. DOUGLAS, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUBBER COVERINGS FOR WHIP-STOCKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,762, dated August4, 1874; application led May 13, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. DOUGLAS, of Westfield, in the county ofHampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulManufacture or Covering for Whip- Stocks and do hereby declare the sameto be lfully described in the following specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l denotes a perspective viewof it; Fig. 2, a view of its larger end; Fig. 3, a view of its smallerend.

It is an elastic tapering seamless and Water proof tube, generally aboutseven feet in length, three-fourths of an inch in diameter at its largerend, and about three twentyfourths of an inch in diameter at its smallerend. Its thickness is about the twenty-fourth part of an inch. It tapersregularly from end to end, and is made of india-rubber or its equivalentvulcanized.

I do not confine it to the precise proportions above stated, as they maybe varied to suit the size of the stock to be covered.

When used it is to be drawn endwise upon and thus preserves its glue orcement in its normal or hard condition, and being elastic, bothlengthwise and w'idthwise, the covering can readily be made to fit anystock.

I claim As a new manufacture, the seamless elastic tapering andWater-proof Whip covering, substantially as described.

` GEO. H. DOUGLAS. Witnesses:

HENRY FULLER, SAMUEL J. DOUGLAS.

